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PHP-Nuke 5.1 stores user and administrator passwords in a base-64 encoded cookie, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges by stealing or sniffing the cookie and decoding it

Published Feb 2, 2002

Description

PHP-Nuke 5.1 stores user and administrator passwords in a base-64 encoded cookie, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges by stealing or sniffing the cookie and decoding it.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 2, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Jan 31, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a